The first crop of the year 2009 'Ghulama' Kannada film is disgusting one. 'Ghulama' deserved to be better in all the departments. Tushar Ranganath has not left any promises from his first film. Staying in the film industry for a long time he has not learnt good lessons. Firstly he has chosen the wrong subject and casting. Prajwal Devaraj is misfit for this type of underworld subjects. He is still a Chaco bar ice candy! It is better Prajwal picks some tender love story films with very good narration in the subject. A senior producer like Ramu giving nod to this kind of film was not expected from him. It seems he is fond of action movies.
Anil (Prajwal Devaraj) is after Priyanka (Bienca Desai) a model whom he has groomed in several ways. The power of muscles is different from power of brain in his case. The inordinate delay in expressing his love to Priyanka results in various complications for him. In the meantime he has another admirer Divya (Sonu). The circumstances make Anil to enter the underworld and he does it against to the wishes of his parents. He puts down the major power in the underworld and he is wanted by the police. Priyanka takes the responsibility of surrender of Anil to police but soon he comes out on bail. At last Anil gears up his guts to express his love to Priyanka who is a top model now but the reaction from him is a boulder shock for Anil. Priyanka frankly admit that she is not in love with him. Eventually Anil settles down with Divya.
Director Tushal Ranganath has not groomed the role of protagonist in a convincing style. At the cost of everything the hero going behind the heroine is not in good taste. The characters he has evolved are also useless and boring.
Prajwal Devaraj has a good image of a lover boy. He cannot take up his Pappa's dynamic image so soon in his career. He is still a tender boy. At a wider perspective he has to look at the roles he is taking up. Bienca is a treat to watch on the screen especially in dance sequence. Sonu is showing promises from film after film.
Music director Gurukiran and cinematographer Shekar Chandru have not given their best. Don't waste your time!
Scoring 4/10
